ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,930, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Proactive mitigation of GPS accuracy errors" was invented by Fang Lu (Billerica, Mass.), Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mitigating GPS inaccuracy is provided. The method comprises identifying a required level of location accuracy for an activity of an autonomous system and determining, according to GPS coordinates, a location of the autonomous system. A determination is made, according to a knowledge base created by historical learni...